Night of the Pompon

By Sarah Jett

Book Overview

When Jendra MacKenzie is invited to join the cheerleader squad, she must take part in a strange initiation in which she worships a sacred glass-enclosed Pompon that gives the cheerleaders special powers, in a spoof of teen horror stories.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671786334
• ISBN13: 9780671786335
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Hilarious spoof of the teen horror genre.

Jendra MacKenzie is a pretty ordinary, unpopular seventh-grader who is, to her dismay, flunking algebra. One day in the girls' bathroom at school, a shoe drops from the ceiling. That's the start of a totally weird series of events. Because the shoe has a piece of pompon on it, she shows it to the cheerleaders, who discover it is the principal's shoe (turns out someone stole the principal's socks, shoes, and pants that morning). Tina, the most popular girl in school and leader of the cheerleaders' clique, asks (well, ask is a loose word - more like FORCES) Jendra to become the mascot for the cheerleaders. After a super-weird initiation ritual in which she discovers the cheerleaders worship a "sacred" pompon, she's had enough. But the cheerleaders won't let her leave. Is she truly doomed? This was a hilarious spoof of school cliques, cheerleaders, and the teen horror genre.